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Just because both medical and recreational marijuana are now legal in Oregon doesn't mean a cannabis activist's work is done.
Portland's 17th annual entry into the Global Cannabis March rolled through downtown Saturday, with hundreds of legalization advocates moving forward on their unfinished business.
The event featured speakers and music at Pioneer Courthouse Square. Then an hour-long march kicked off with chants of "I smoke pot, and I like it a lot."
As its name implies, the march is an international event taking place in nearly 300 cities worldwide. In places like Portland, where marijuana prohibition has ended, marches continue to promote legalization at the federal level while protesting overregulation and the stigma that still often surrounds responsible cannabis users and patients.
"We usually come to the square trying to legalize," says Scott Gordon, executive director for Oregon National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the emcee for the event.
While legalization has been achieved, he says there is still much work to be done.
"We have nowhere to smoke. We have nowhere to take our medicine in," says Gordon.
He also notes the challenges for marijuana business owners who are unable to open bank accounts for business use.
"The march today is our voice for changing this," says Gordon.
"To let everyone know that we are not done. Just because Oregon legalized in 2014 it doesn't mean that everything is all gravy."
News Moderator: Robert Celt 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Even With Legal Pot, Global Cannabis Marchers' Work Not Done
Author: Dillon Pilorget
Contact: OregonLive
Photo Credit: Kristyna Wentz-Graff
Website: OregonLive
Portland's 17th annual entry into the Global Cannabis March rolled through downtown Saturday, with hundreds of legalization advocates moving forward on their unfinished business.
The event featured speakers and music at Pioneer Courthouse Square. Then an hour-long march kicked off with chants of "I smoke pot, and I like it a lot."
As its name implies, the march is an international event taking place in nearly 300 cities worldwide. In places like Portland, where marijuana prohibition has ended, marches continue to promote legalization at the federal level while protesting overregulation and the stigma that still often surrounds responsible cannabis users and patients.
"We usually come to the square trying to legalize," says Scott Gordon, executive director for Oregon National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the emcee for the event.
While legalization has been achieved, he says there is still much work to be done.
"We have nowhere to smoke. We have nowhere to take our medicine in," says Gordon.
He also notes the challenges for marijuana business owners who are unable to open bank accounts for business use.
"The march today is our voice for changing this," says Gordon.
"To let everyone know that we are not done. Just because Oregon legalized in 2014 it doesn't mean that everything is all gravy."
News Moderator: Robert Celt 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Even With Legal Pot, Global Cannabis Marchers' Work Not Done
Author: Dillon Pilorget
Contact: OregonLive
Photo Credit: Kristyna Wentz-Graff
Website: OregonLive
